New World PvP quests: Your daily dose of war!
by John Himes 
Feb 11th 2008 at 7:30PM
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I was one of the lucky few that was able to copy my character and log onto the public test realm over the weekend. Playing more than I probably should have, I was able to check out all the new daily quests and snap screenshots of much of the new content. In the midst of my frenzied trek around Outland and the Isle of Quel'danas (the new zone that hosts the upcoming dungeons), I made certain to check out the two new PvP daily quests mentioned in the patch notes. These are not the new Battlegrounds Daily PvP quests that are being introduced with the same patch, but all new quest options for World PvP objectives.First off, I headed to Allerian Stronghold in Terokkar Forest. Near the Spirit Shard vendor, I found a new NPC, Exorcist Sullivan, offering that zone's daily quest. The objective is simple enough, merely help in the capture of one of the Spirit Towers in the Bone Wastes. In return you'll be awarded some cash and honor: 11 gold, 99 silver and 209 honor, to be exact. While I haven't been able to check out the Horde version of the quest yet, I'd imagine the NPC should be easy to spot in Stonebreaker Hold, near Spirit Sage Gartok, the Horde Spirit Shard vendor.
The second new quest, "In Defense of Halaa", can be found in Nagrand. For Alliance, the quest giver, Lakoor, is found at the entrance to the jail in Telaar (and I would assume that the Horde version is picked up in Garadar). For this quest you have to kill ten players of the opposing faction in the vicinity of Halaa in order to earn the same amount of money and honor as the other daily.
This quest may be a bit more difficult to complete than it's Terokkar equivalent, since Halaa sees little action on some servers, mine included. While ownership of the Spirit Towers resets after a few hours, ensuring that you'll always have a chance to complete this quest every day, Halaa has no such mechanic. Hopefully the quest will help itself out by creating a renewed interest in Nagrand PvP.
Are you looking forward to these quests hitting the live servers? Will you attempt to complete them on a daily basis?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Slayblaze Feb 11th 2008 7:49PM
So it's basically nothing new, just additional rewards for doing what is already there. Better than nothing I suppose, and may spark some renewed interest in those zone's world pvp.
nav Feb 11th 2008 7:51PM
The spirit towers reset after a sizeable number of hours. There'll probably be only one or two peak time slots you'll have the opportunity to capture them, unless Blizz has tweaked that and made them much more open to capture.
It's not a daily I can see many people going for at all.
onetrueping Feb 11th 2008 8:12PM
Maybe this will give all the honor farmers something to do other than going AFK in battlegrounds?
Fel Feb 11th 2008 8:25PM
I don't play for keeps,
I play for BLOOD.
Tiforix Feb 11th 2008 8:26PM
Nobody really cares about the damage buff in either zone. The spirit towers see a lot of action (at least on Proudmoore) because you need control of them in order to get spirit shards from bosses in the Auchindoun dungeons.
They need to do something similar with Halaa if they want to increase the action there. There are no dungeons in Nagrand, but maybe they could double the drop rate for Oshu'Gun Powder for the faction who controls Halaa (since you need 160 of those for the 18-slot bag). Or maybe increase the rep gain rate for Kurenai/Mag'har, or better yet, put some level 70 PvP gear on the Halaa vendor.
Drifter Feb 12th 2008 10:27AM
"put some level 70 PvP gear on the Halaa vendor"
Exactly. There is no incentive to pvp in Halaa. It's a shame because it can be a lot of fun.
Raaj Feb 11th 2008 8:29PM
I'm fairly certain that these quests may have some traffic the first few days that they're out because they're new, but they'll drop off dramatically after that. A daily quest that requires completing an objective that's only available every 6 hours is a daily that won't get completed often/ever. Additionally, unless they start giving a good reason to hold Halaa (or add some better items to the vendors), that daily probably won't see much traffic either.
Alch Feb 11th 2008 9:22PM
If Halaa had better rewards I could see players messing with it. How about X amount of battle tokens for a primal nether.
TheWintergree Feb 11th 2008 9:28PM
On a side note, is that the new Shattered Sun Tabard? If it is, then man, that's a pretty fine looking tabard.
doyesac Feb 11th 2008 11:21PM
On my heavily Alliance-dominated server, we Horde take Halaa maybe twice a week — and turnout is generally pretty low. General chat in Nagrand is full of begging and pleading for more to try to wrest Halaa from the dread Alliance. The only people who help are those with lots of Oshu'Gun Powder to turn in and those who are bored. Giving bonus honor might draw in a few more. While not a major change, this should help a bit.
Good_Idea Feb 12th 2008 2:59AM
Just, I'll do these two dailies, if only for fun. World pvp is fun and a great way to get to know people on your server.
Taking one tower is easy, we took all the towers tonight (for kicks). But taking Halaa on an Alliance dominated server can be no fun when outnumbered 5:1, it has to be organized and a fast strike. It's in Alliance's best interest to let us take it, but you know how people are.
Eldron Feb 12th 2008 4:11AM
Meh, still nothing to make Zangamarsh PvP worth doing then.
As for Halaa, the best suggestion I've ever seen was that Halaa should contain the only AH in Outlands, and that whoever controls it controls the AH.
superfrank Feb 12th 2008 6:23AM
+1
Naix Feb 12th 2008 9:31AM
I would sign that.
vildand Feb 12th 2008 8:02AM
Both halaa and the spririt towers see a lot of action on my server as it is, so I welcome the addition. But I'm frankly a little dissapointed with a headline like that. :p
I still hope they introduce some new and better pvp quests.
Netherscourge Feb 12th 2008 8:18AM
The problem with Halaa is that the current PvP rewards you get from those Badges are sub-70 level items.... mainly Blues, with 1 Resilience Gem and a 18 slot bag...
BEEF UP the rewards for Halaa PvP and more people would take part in it.
Heartless_ Feb 12th 2008 9:38AM
On Azgalor, Horde flips Halaa in the early morning hours fairly regularly with just a couple people and within a few hours or so the Alliance has it back. Outside of a couple bored 70's, there is no PvP involved in the cap. Which pretty much means no one gives a fly pigeon about it.
turkeyspit Feb 12th 2008 10:02AM
How is capturing 1 (one) Spirit Tower in the Bone Wastes worthy of a PvP Daily? Unless I'm misreading something, or unless Blizzard means to change the way it works, you:
1- fly to a tower in the Bone Wastes
2- enable PvP
3 - wait 10 seconds
4 - collect phat lewtz and honor
lol wut?
And as was previously mentioned, the Bone Wastes, once controlled, cannot be retaken for something like 4 hours, right? This is a good thing as it prevents a party entering a dungeon only to lose control of the towers, but this will also prevent people who "miss the window" from achieving this daily.
In essence, this is Blizzard trying to make really crappy World PvP into really crappy World PvP with more rewards.
How about something new and innovative, like adding a special NPC to a particular Factions town/city, and get people to go and raid that city? Hmm?
Felstorm Feb 12th 2008 10:43AM
200 bonus honor is really not an incentive enough to travel to either zone to see if the towers are available or if Halaa is under attack. I would rather just run another AV or EotS instead.
They need to increase the bonus honor a lot or, as others have suggested, add level 70 armor to the zones to make it worth our effort.
Clem Feb 12th 2008 11:41AM
This will increase the epidemic of Welfare Epics; more people than ever will be in S1 gear, making the S1 gear way too vanilla.
People will raid less, leading to the demise of the casual raider class.
I guess the only way out of this PVP mess that Blizzard has created is an expansion pack that raises the level limit. And all that does is push the problem up in time, where it will rezz itself once a majority of the population is at level 80.